The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-10
FLORIDA.

The Mcpherson block at Punta Gorda is
going up with jump.
Punta Gorda will soon be a town two
miles wide by three long.
Grape fruit is dropping from the trees at
Oxford. The cause is a mystery
Several white frosts have been observed
in the vicinity of st. Augustine during the
week
Oysters are reported in full supply at
Cedar Keys, and unusually good for this sea-
son of the year.
At Bloomfield Tuesday a convention of
people of Lake county unanimously nomi-
mated that place for county seat as a COM
promise.
Louis Lehman, of Jacksonville, has been
granted patent for arrangement of ar
tesian wells and stinces connected Herewith
for actuating water works.
c. B. Pendleton, editor of the Key West
Equator, has purchased six homing pigeons,
| and will establish a line between Tampa
and Havana, touching at Key West.
A preliminary survey will soon be made
of the proposed Coast Line railroad from
st. Augustine south to Daytona. 1t is said
| the road will be completed by Jan. l. 1889.
Haywood Carr (colored), who killed his
paramonr Sallie Nelson colored) at Pensa-
cola, March z, has been unprecedented at
| New Orleans. He cut her throat with
knife and escaped.
A kitten without mouth, ears or nose
was recently born at Key West There was
single eve where the mouth should have
been, and as the poor thing couldn't eat
with its eye it died.
| 1t is said that the Townsville. Talahas-
| see and Gulf railroad is negotiating for a
steamer that will make about eighteen
miles an hour to run between Apalachicola
| and Carrabelle and connect daily with the
| trains.
The steamer Cumberland is now running
between Braidentown and Pensacola, on
which route she will continue until uuaran-
tine is raised. Then she will run between
Mobile and Tampa, touching at the Manatee
river landings.
The amount of money received by Reve-
nue. Collector Price, of Palatka, during
October for licenses was S., l07 so, of which
S., 4O5 goes to the State and 81, 702 80 to the
county. There has been very little trouble
in collecting this tax.
The murderer Cook, of Titusville, was
before Judge Broome, in the Brevard
county Circuit Court last Saturday, and APP
pealed for change of venue. The Judge
granted the appeal, and sent the case to
| Volusia county, to be heard Nov Is.
The Tallahassee City Council has con
tracted with the Tallahassee Brush Electric
| Light Company to light the streets of ITALIA
| hasSee for the term of five years. The hotels
and stores will also use the light and it will
be used in the capitol during the session of
the Legislature.
Pullman Conductor Mai ID. Shefftall, of
Savannah, on the Savannah, Florida and
| Western railway, left Jacksonville for
Pensacola yesterday morning on important
| business as he told the reporters. AS Miss
| Kemper Fisher, of that city, changed her
name to Mrs D. Shefftall yesterday, it is
very important that he should be present.
The Florida Fruit Exchange is busy pre-
| pairing for the fall business. The indications
SO far are good for the orange crop, al
though many of the growers make the mis-
take Of shipping green fruit. Their com
parative statement, completed Yesterday
showed that they had, from the commence
ment of the season up to the present time,
sent to market four times as many boxes as
sent last year for the same period.
1.-The Ormond people seem to be going into
stocks at great rate. Not content with
forming stock company to build bridge,
they have now formed Law and Order
society in the shape of a stock company
Its capital is 900 and is not TO be paid
up except by assessments as wanted. The
association will aim its gun at the unlawful
selling of intoxicants, and also the soda
fountains and prescriptions, when used as
makeshifts to beat the law. Notwithstand-
ing the hlgh tides Ormond intends to remain
dry.
At Tallahassee Tuesday, H. Bisbee Jr.,
appeared before the Supreme Court on the
Jacksonville city charter case. Yesterday
morning was set for the hearing of the ar
guments of w. b. Young, who appears in
behalf of the County Commissioners The
opinion prevails that the amendment to the
charter having failed TO provide the ma
chinery Of election and having annulled the
sIer oil
charter is thereby fatally defective and no
election can ever be held under it, A decs-
ion cannot be reached by the court under
aen days.
A few days ago Mr. Gibson, at the Bank
of Jacksonville, paid f. w. Gillen the
money on a check that he held on the bank.
and among which there was a So gold piece.
MIR. Gillen received the money and went
away During the day he deposited the
money in the office of Amber, Marvin a
Stockton. After receiving the money the
cashier thought one of the s. pieces looked
a little Splriot1S and altar Oiv ip.r thor.